Banants Training Centre

FC Banants Training Centre
Former names	Malatia Football School
Location	Yerevan ; Armenia
Coordinates	40°10′20″N44°27′02″E / 40.17222°N 44.45056°E Coordinates: 40°10′20″N44°27′02″E / 40.17222°N 44.45056°E
Owner	FC Banants
Type	Football training facility
Opened	23 May 2003 [1]
Tenants
	FC Banants (training); Banants-2 (official matches)
Website
	Official website

Last updated March 13, 2019

Banants Training Centre, is the training ground and academy base of the Armenian football club FC Banants. It houses the club's main stadium, 3 additional full-size training pitches, mini football pitches as well as an indoor facility. The current technical director of the academy is the former Russian footballer Ilshat Faizulin.

A training ground is an area where professional association football teams prepare for matches, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness. They also sometimes form part of a club's youth system, as clubs consider it important to have good facilities to aid the development of young players.

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located in Western Asia on the Armenian Highlands, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan to the south.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

History

Banants Training Centre was officially opened on 23 May 2003 on the grounds of the former Malatia Football School nnamed after Eduard Grigoryan, located in the Malatia-Sebastia District of the capital Yerevan.^[2] The opening ceremony was attended by then-presidents of FIFA Sepp Blatter, then-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, and then-president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan. The centre was renovated and completed as part of FIFA's Goal development programme. Occupying an area of 65,000 m², the centre is used for youth and senior teams training.

Malatia-Sebastia is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, located in the western part of the city. As of the 2011 census, the district has a population of 132,900.

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese; the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world.

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On 16 October 2007, Sepp Blatter along with then-presidents of the UEFA Michel Platini, visited the centre during their 2-day official visit to Armenia.^[3]

The Union of European Football Associations is the administrative body for association football, futsal and beach soccer in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consists of 55 national association members.

Michel François Platini is a French former football player, manager and administrator. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and came sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. In recognition of his achievements, he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1985 and became Officier in 1988. As the president of UEFA in 2015 he was banned from football, over ethics violations.

On 7 October 2015, Fabio Capello visited the training centre. Admired by the club facilities, Capello told the journalists that "Banants has a great base for training and work".^[4]^[5]

Fabio Capello is an Italian former professional football manager and player.

In November 2016, the centre hosted the training sessions of the Swiss and the Italian under-19 teams, participating in the 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, group 7. Impressed by the centre, the Swiss team manager Gérard Castella told the journalists that the "conditions here are simply fantastic".

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On 15 December 2017, a new artificial pitch was installed in the centre with the financial assistance of the Football Federation of Armenia.^[6]

The Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) is the governing body of association football in Armenia. It is based in Yerevan.

As of April 2017, the academy runs 6 youth teams with ages ranging between 13 and 17.^[7] The directing coach of the academy is Artashes Adamyan.

The centre frequently hosts local and foreign football clubs for periodic training camps and friendly matches.

Facilities

With a total area of 65,000 m², Banants Training Centre is the largest football academy in Armenia owned by a club and the 2nd largest football training base in Yerevan following the Yerevan Football Academy. It is home to a large number of training facilities including:

Banants Stadium with a capacity of 4,860 seats, is the home stadium of FC Banants.
2 full-size artificial pitches, with the first pitch having a seating capacity of 600 seats, used by Banants-2; the reserve team of the club. The first artificial turf was installed in 2007 with the assistance of the Football Federation of Armenia and the FIFA Goal Programme.
1 full-size natural grass pitch.
2 natural grass and 1 artificial turf seven-a-side training pitches.
1 artificial turf five-a-side training pitch.
1 indoor mini football training hall.
Service centre with swimming pool and gymnasium. The club headquarters are located at the 2nd floor of the building.

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References

External links

Training Centre page at Banants official website

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[1] Banants football academy

[2] Banants training centre

[3] Բլատերի` Հայաստան կատարած այցից անցել է 10 տարի

[4] FC Banants – An Ambitious Project with a Russian Engine and a Spanish Look

[5] Capello: Bannats has a great base

[6] New artificial pitch opened in Banants Training Centre

[7] FC Banants academy

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